Gotta Love Competition!

"... and I'm concerned about the implications for publishers and the public alike," said James Taggart - er, I mean David Young.

I've been taking advantage of it! I bought a hardcover version of the Wealth of Nations, and I finally found Keynes' General Theory cheap enough to actually buy and read, and I bought a copy of Friedman's Capitalism and Freedom. I've been surprised, actually. Borders gave me 40% off of Friedman's A Monetary History of the United States and 30% off of Powell's Making Poor Nations Rich.

I am running out of shelf space! They need to make bookshelves cheaper too, now!

Books becoming more affordable? Horrors! We must stop this madness!

lol @ economic ignorance.

Note to all:

If you search for the headline in Google News, and click the link FROM THERE, you'll be able to read the article in its entirety. I'm not sure why this is, but it's quite handy to know.

WSJ wants folks to find their news stories and come to their site, those that otherwise wouldn't be on WSJ.com. It almost never fails, so I wonder how their online operation makes money when ignorance usually peters out quickly on the web.

Speaking of competition, Russ has some in the libertarian rap arena: http://www.youtube.com/user/TheNeemaV

It can't be that simple! I'm sure behind the scenes our wise and omnipotent leaders set up an "exchange" and offered a "public option" to force a competition on profit-seeking, workers-exploiting, greedy, inefficient, evil commercial enterprises! (pfffff.... I can take a breath now)

Brilliant!